Spencer spooner



S. SPOONER.

Patented June 27, 1893.

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PROCESS 0I' MAKING WARE FABRICS POR GLOVES OR THE LIKE.

W/TNESSES @M M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SPENCER SPOONER, OF BROOKLYN, YORIQASSIGNOR TO ABRAHAM. G, JENNINGS, ,OFSAME PLACE.

PROCESS OF MAKING WARP FABRICS FOR GLOVES 0R THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,165, dated June2'7, 1893.

Application tiled August 29,1892.

T0 @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, SPENCER SPooNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in Kings county, State of New York, have inventedanew and Improved Process of Making )Varp Fabrics for Gloves and theLike.

This invention relates to an improved process of making warp fabrics oftwo or more thicknesses in the same piece for use in gloves, stockingsand like articles, wherein it is essential that some portions of thearticle be of greater thickness than its adjacent portions, and consistsin series of steps hereinafter described and specifically pointed out inthe claim.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a piece of fabric made inaccordance with my improved process. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing therelation of the strands one to the other and clearly illustrating myimproved process.

My improved process is carried out on an ordinary warp machine used formaking laces and jerseyfabrics whose nature is to be more or lesselastic, and which is produced on such machines by linking or loopingthe threads together upon the needles, with the threads passing throughthe guides which traverse from right to left certain distances and lapon the needles; the threads always following to a certain extent thedirection of the selvages of the fabric.

In my improved process, I employ two or more sets of threads (two beingshown) as A, B, which are threaded through two or more sets of guides onas many separate guide bars, which guide-bars move from right to left inopposite directions and lap the threads on the needles in the usual Wayin this character of machine, and which produces the ordinary jerseyfabric as indicated at C in Fig. l of the drawings and the upper portionof Fig. 2.

N ow at certain intervals, or where it is de sired to make the articlethicker (as indicated at D, Fig. l) for the 4purpose of wear, the guidesas shown, of one guide bar tra-Verse one or more needles in excess ofthe number traversed in making the thinner portion of the fabric, andloop the needles that are adjacent to the guides'when the end of thetraverse is reached; the length of each thread serai No. 444,360.(specimens.)

crsed by each thread without looping deter- 6o mining the thicknessofthe material. At the upper portion of Fig. 2 the five parallel rows ofloops t', laf, gandj of the five strands A (and all of which are carriedon one guide-bar, five being taken for illustration merely) traverse tothe right two needles; laying loops f, g,j,land m in line 2. In line 3the strands go back to the left and lay the strands t', h,f, g and j, asin line l, and so on.

Wheu'it is desired to make a thicker fabric or portion, the guide-bar,(as shown in the lower part of Fig. 2) is traversed two needles inexcess of the number traversed in knitting the thinner portion (althoughevidently a different number in excess may be traversed), wherebj7 theloops n, 0,71, h, fare laid. It will be observed that while the threadsare looped on different needles at different times, the same number ofthreads are always'looped at each movement of the guide-bar.

The straight lengths of the strandsbetween the lines of loops 1 and 2(upper part of Fig. 2), as indicated by a b, show the length of threadsto be oated on the surface in the thinner portion of the fabric, and thedistance between such strands, indicate the laying of the warp. Acomparison of these strands a b with the corresponding strands c CZ inthe thicker portion of the fabric (lower part of Fig. 2) shows that thefloat-ed thread of the latter is almost twice the length of that made inthe thinner knitted portion, while they (the warp) are laid about halfas far apart.

It will be observed that the thread B is regularly looped as shown inthe drawings.

By my invention I am enabled to make a large variety of thicknessesinthe same piece of material without increasing or decreasing the numberof threads.

Having described my invention, I claim- Ico n i Y f "homes The processherein described of making and looping the threads thus ,traversed oroar warp fabrics of varied thicknessesin the same ried to form a thickerknitted portion, sub- 1o piece, which consists in traversing a numbestnntially as described. of threads each over one or more needles an 5looping the threads to form a-comparatively SPENCER' SPOONER' thinknitted portion, traversing the seme Witnesses: threads each over one ormore needles in ex- HARRYM. TURK, cess of those first traversed, forminga oat, OTTO SCHRENK.

